RACF Contract Job Trends in England

IBM Resource Access Control Facility (RACF)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring RACF skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 520 520 537
Rank change year-on-year 0 +17 +175
Contract jobs citing RACF 8 12 45
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.028% 0.038% 0.11%
As % of the System Software category 0.22% 0.32% 0.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 8 7
10th Percentile £458 £476 £530
25th Percentile £469 £484 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £600 £675
Median % change year-on-year -14.58% -11.11% +18.63%
75th Percentile £563 £750 £706
90th Percentile £585 - £735
UK median daily rate £513 £650 £600
% change year-on-year -21.15% +8.33% +5.45%

All System Software Skills
England

RACF falls under the System Software category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring system software skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 3,581 3,704 5,317
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 12.61% 11.66% 13.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,304 2,404 3,650
10th Percentile £208 £220 £200
25th Percentile £385 £380 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% -4.76%
75th Percentile £596 £622 £625
90th Percentile £675 £700 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 119 79 246
10th Percentile £15.50 £16.80 £15.50
25th Percentile £20.41 £21.86 £18.34
Median hourly rate £32.77 £50.00 £46.84
Median % change year-on-year -34.46% +6.75% +112.91%
75th Percentile £67.25 £70.00 £65.98
90th Percentile £88.93 £80.25 £77.02
UK median hourly rate £28.00 £44.00 £48.89
% change year-on-year -36.36% -10.00% +122.22%

RACF
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing RACF relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

RACF job vacancy trend in England

RACF
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing RACF.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing RACF

RACF
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing RACF.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing RACF

RACF
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing RACF within the England region over the 6 months to 22 October 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +13 5 £513 -31.67% 1
South West +14 2 £550 -
North of England - 1 - - 1
Yorkshire - 1 - -
RACF
UK

RACF
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 4 (50.00%) CICS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (25.00%) DB2
General
1 3 (37.50%) Finance
2 2 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (25.00%) Banking
3 1 (12.50%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 5 (62.50%) Programmer
1 5 (62.50%) Systems Programmer
2 3 (37.50%) CICS Programmer
2 3 (37.50%) CICS Systems Programmer
2 3 (37.50%) Mainframe Programmer
2 3 (37.50%) Mainframe Systems Programmer
3 2 (25.00%) Administrator
3 2 (25.00%) Security Administrator
3 2 (25.00%) z/OS Systems Programmer
4 1 (12.50%) Mainframe Support
4 1 (12.50%) Systems Support
4 1 (12.50%) Unix Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (12.50%) ISPF
Miscellaneous
1 7 (87.50%) Mainframe
2 1 (12.50%) IBM Mainframe
2 1 (12.50%) Management Information System
2 1 (12.50%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 6 (75.00%) zOS
2 1 (12.50%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) High Availability
1 4 (50.00%) ITIL
2 3 (37.50%) Data Sharing
2 3 (37.50%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (25.00%) Cost Reduction
3 2 (25.00%) Runbook
4 1 (12.50%) Batch Processing
4 1 (12.50%) Change Control
4 1 (12.50%) Compliance Audit
4 1 (12.50%) Configuration Management
4 1 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (12.50%) Disaster Recovery
4 1 (12.50%) Incident Response
4 1 (12.50%) Performance Optimisation
4 1 (12.50%) Performance Tuning
4 1 (12.50%) Problem Management
4 1 (12.50%) Regulatory Compliance
4 1 (12.50%) Root Cause Analysis
4 1 (12.50%) Security Auditing
4 1 (12.50%) Technical Analysis
Programming Languages
1 2 (25.00%) COBOL
2 1 (12.50%) Assembly Language
2 1 (12.50%) JCL
2 1 (12.50%) PL/1
2 1 (12.50%) REXX
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) CISSP
1 1 (12.50%) IBM Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) GDPR
1 1 (12.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 2 (25.00%) Job Entry Subsystem
2 1 (12.50%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 3 (37.50%) OMEGAMON
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) IBM
2 1 (12.50%) BMC
2 1 (12.50%) Broadcom